Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orphan Of Angel Street | 1999 | Annie Murray | Buy |
| 2 | Poppy Day | 2000 | Annie Murray | Buy |
| 3 | Miss Purdy’s Class | 2005 | Annie Murray | Buy |
| 4 | Family of Women | 2006 | Annie Murray | Buy |
| 5 | Where Earth Meets Sky | 2007 | Annie Murray | Buy |
| 6 | My Daughter, My Mother | 2012 | Annie Murray | Buy |
| 7 | Papa Georgio | 2012 | Annie Murray | Buy |
| 8 | The Women of Lilac Street | 2013 | Annie Murray | Buy |
| 9 | Meet Me Under the Clock | 2014 | Annie Murray | Buy |
| 10 | War Babies | 2015 | Annie Murray | Buy |
| 11 | Now The War Is Over | 2016 | Annie Murray | Buy |
| 12 | The Doorstep Child | 2017 | Annie Murray | Buy |
| 13 | Mother and Child | 2019 | Annie Murray | Buy |
| 14 | Girls In Tin Hats | 2020 | Annie Murray | Buy |
| 15 | Black Country Orphan | 2021 | Annie Murray | Buy |
Murray’s fifteen standalone novels show the full range of her historical interests. Poppy Day (2000) is set during the First World War; Miss Purdy’s Class (2005) focuses on a teacher in Birmingham’s poorest schools; Where Earth Meets Sky (2007) reaches to India during the British Raj; Papa Georgio (2012) moves to Italy. The majority, however, return to Birmingham and the Midlands, documenting a consistent social world across different decades and neighborhoods.
The standalones include some of her most ambitious work. My Daughter, My Mother (2012), Meet Me Under the Clock (2014), and Now The War Is Over (2016) each take on the specific texture of Birmingham life at different historical moments. Together the fifteen books add up to an extraordinarily detailed portrait of British working-class life in a city that has not always received this level of literary attention.